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Lovely collection. Nice clean builds. all of them! The Luftwaffe pilot looks like he should go to sleep for a few hours before the next mission... Great dio!

Great Phantom and inspiring collection! I never realised that the Super Hornet is so large in comparison with the F-4.

Sweet little car and even sweeter model. I really like your engines in detail on each of your cars!

You achieved a great composition of kits. It looks absolutely seamless!

As usual I prepare and attach the bottom half of the main wing first in order to lash the rigging wires up within the wing. A few notes - (1) The elevators are offered as separate parts which makes more work than sense because the connecting tabs are not designed for deflection as an option. (2) The pre-drilled holes on the outboard side of the cabane struts are in the wrong position. The wires from the lower wing lead to the rear stays of struts! (3) I moved the positioning holes for the elevator rod 4 mm inboard. Viewed from the front the rod should be vertical (not tilted) and goes across the interplane strut. The wing has been fixed to the cabane struts and rigged for stability. This is my preferred approach rather than connecting all struts at the same time because it’s much easier to insert the interplane struts later. It works best when, like here, the cabane struts hold the wing in the correct position. Already now, the wing-fuselage linkup is very firm.

Masterpiece after masterpiece coming from your workbench! I wonder where you find all those nice suitable figures.

The (blue) like button is on the extreme right, somewhat larger, and therefore easily overlooked.

That sounds like a great groupbuild. I would join - got a Vengeance and a Ki-43 on my waiting list.

Meanwhile the fuselage has been adorned with the plane-in-squadron designators. The standard figures are a tad too large for aircraft No. 2102, however. In retrospect I could have chosen a different stablemate or ordered suitable numbers but I think I can live with that. Other elements that have been added or reconsidered - (1) The kit's interplane struts are fine and fit the main wing, the locating pins however needed to be pruned to pass into the slots. (2) The USAAC-type gunsight comes out of the box. (3) After contemplating the bracing straps (see Step 5.1) I attached a thin stripe of silver paper to make them wider by a fraction. (4) The original canopy by FMK is way too chunky and wouldn't fit on the spine. A vacu-formed replacement is on its way thanks to Mark Buchler from Flightline Engineering. (5) I applied two different Mr. Hobby acrylic varnishes - semi-gloss for the whole airframe and a layer of matte on top for metal areas. This creates a nice variation of the drab overall colour and can generally be recommended to distinguish individual panels.

Hi Dennis, That sounds like a great groupbuild. I would join - got a Vengeance and a Ki-43 on my waiting list. Isn't your post in the wrong category? Cheers, Michael

John, The colour is probably light grey, not silver. Nick Millman states: "The aircraft of the Cantonese Air Force were painted grey, usually depicted as a cool light grey". http://www.aviationofjapan.com/2016/05/curtiss-hawks-china-and-french-grey.html The Guangxi and the Cantonese Air Force contributed pilots and planes to the National Chinese war effort. They were identified by a red border to the blue/white star roundel. It seems this Type 91 was one of them. @Tommy Liu Tommy, what's your take on it? Michael

Great NM finish Steve!

The kit may be awfull the model you created is wonderful!

Who would dislike such a masterpiece??

What a beauty - ready for the museum!